Verification of everything by this standard.

Four Commandments:

Three enemies: Communist conceit — that is the enemy illiteracy bribery
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(1) Do not philosophize craftily, do not swagger with communism, do not mask negligence, idleness, Oblomovism, backwardness with grand words; { (2) eliminate illiteracy; { (3) fight against bribery;
(4) verify all your work, so that words do not remain
J merely words, [but are confirmed] by the practical successes of economic construction.

Written in October, before the 17th, 1921.
First published in 1924
in the journal "Molodaya Gvardiya" No. 2-3

Printed from the manuscript
* - a second time. Ed.
** - Summa summaram - the grand total. Ed.

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